[Rhodes22-list] Ron Lipton's Political Glee

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Ron:

I will reply to your glee.  Understanding your educational level, and your
friends, I would suggest that academic achievement may or may not be
relevant.

Too me, the most important criterion is an effort to be honest.   For some
even with religious background, simple honesty does not matter.
  
You said, “It is nice to know that people of real quality can go into
politics
and succeed.”  

That is a defining statement.  Does quality mean integrity?  Recently, a
friend of mine lost his wife.  I have known him and her since the early
1970’s.  He is a man of integrity, notwithstanding he is very liberal in
some areas.  I worked for several of his campaigns.  During his time in
Washington as Secretary of Education a U. S. Senate seat came open.  I was
deeply afraid that he might actually run for it.  Because at that point I
doubted I could be a foot soldier in that campaign.  But alas, he chose not
too, but rather returned to South Carolina to write and teach.

I suspect, but never asked him if part of his reasoning for easing out of
politics was the moral quality of those he associated with.  So then, do you
consider Bill Clinton a man of real quality?

I have posted this standard that we should expect from elected officials as
a subscript several times:
“ The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible,
divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of
the character and conduct of their rulers”   John Adams  

I hope your friend is a man of integrity first.  What say yea?

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA

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